US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on Dec. 9 for "Air-guiding device for a passenger car, as well as a passenger car" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,949, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Air-guiding device for a passenger car, as well as a passenger car" was invented by Gustavo Estrada (Stuttgart, Germany), Fabian Reize (Winnenden, Germany) and Carsten Henke (Gemmrigheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air-guiding device of a front of a passenger car includes an air-guiding element which is movable at least in a subsection, at least in a vertical direction of the passenger car, between a raised position and a lowered position. A splitter and the air-guiding element are connected by a section which is formed from an elastica...